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Kamaree vs Kamari

American parents have registered 18,390 Kamaris since 1880, against 585 Kamarees. Kamari is still ahead, with 1,014 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kamaree against Kamari, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kamaree Kamari

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kamari has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1978 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Kamaree had 22 and Kamari had 248.

Side by side

  Kamaree Kamari
Total US births 58518,390
Most in one year 411,229
Babies in 2025 211,014
Estimated living today 58018,000
Median age today 149
Peak year 20082022
Best rank 3,646th boys368th boys
Rank in 2025 5,608th391st
First recorded 19961978
Girls / boys 197 / 3885,845 / 12,545

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kamarees alive today are over 14; half the Kamaris are over 9. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kamaree and Kamari.